Path: utzoo!dciem!king
From: king@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga-like PS/2 with MS-Windows multimedia software
Message-ID: <2571@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 11 Oct 89 19:50:54 GMT
References: <20405@usc.edu>
Reply-To: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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In article <20405@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> [...]
>My only comment is this: Do you think IBM and Microsoft looked at an Amiga? :-)
>Dynamic libraries, MIDI, modem port, animation, special effects, audio ports
>sprites, animation files: I seem to have seen those before :-) Maybe the 
>Amiga is becoming 'mainstream'.

At the recent audio-video show here in Toronto, two computers were featured
extensively: the Mac II and the Amiga. There is a pro-video editing package
for the MacII that plays realtime video in a window from the hard disc.
Fabulous. While there are many terrific packages for the Amiga, nothing
seems to come even close to what this MacII was able to do <sigh>.
Perhaps we are in the process of being scooped.

>Seriously: I truly hope 1.4 comes out SOON.

I would rather see an Amiga 3000 that supported HDTV, 32 bit DMA, etc.
BTW, I saw the Sony HDTV display - WOW. Looks more like film than video. I
also saw NEC's HDTV, and guess what? - they got their source video from a
Sony videodisc!! The Sony rep told me that many production houses are using
HDTV for mastering their stuff, then converting it to NTSC for
distribution. SMPTE has adopted the Sony HDTV standard (or, one of them as
the case may be), so come on Commodore, look at what's going on and get
with it! Don't let MicroSoft heap another shitty defacto standard onto us!

Thanks. (soapbox mode off)

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